Re: 6502 illegal opcodes questions

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> I expect that strictfp will become the most commonly unimplemented
> modifier in the language.  ;-)

:-) probably. It was needed for completeness but virtually no code
would depend on it's behaviour.

> > What remains to be done is an extension to handle richer numerics, like
> > complex numbers.
>
> Ah, yes--and simple (non-precedence changing) operator overloading.

What we might get instead is language level support for complex
numerics, but it's hard to say. Working groups with JCP's come and go,
and rarely get much further than stating this to be a problem. Most
proposed solutions end up sounding worse than not having it at all (one
of the reasons Gosling didn't want it in there)

Matt